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payment includes all conveniences of the Institute. The Librarian will be in attendance on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, from 3 to 6 o’clock afternoons, and 7 to 9.30 evenings. To ensure system and order in the issue of books, it will be necessary to enforce fines for keeping books beyond the specified time for reading. The prompt return of books being thus secured, there will be great convenience in being able to rely on particular books being available to other readers within a reasonable number of days, while new books cannot be monopolised by keeping them in few hands, to the detriment of other readers. Any restraint imposed on individuals by this regulation will be amply compensated by greater convenience to the majority.

The Reading Room. This cannot be kept open free to the public after March Ist, there being no longer a subsidy from Government. But it is intended to popularise the Eeading Boom by fixing the subscription at a nominal sum equal to about a penny a week ; namely 5s a year in advance, 2s 6d half-yearly, or Is a month, this last rate being useful to visitors. Any Member may introduce a friend for one week, by entering name in visitor’s book. Additional papers from the chief centres of population in these colonies will be procured; and all useful papers will be filed with regularity. The Eeading Boom will be increased in comfort, and well lighted. Sets of chess and drafts will be kept for member’s enjoyment. Winter fires wall be well attended to } so that the Eeading Eoom may be a really pleasant resort.

Family Tickets—Life Members. Tickets available for families will be issued; namely, a subscription of £2 will entitle to books &c. equal to three memberships. Life members trill be so created on payment of £lO or over as a donation to the Institute. Donations of books will be acknowledged by the committee with a vote of thanks in each case, and a grateful mention at the annual meeting. All new Subscribers joining now will be charged for only half the current quarter.

Lectures—Debates. The committee contemplate arranging for scientific and other attractive lectures to be given in aid of the Institute funds. Members will be entitled to admission for a nominal sum, and the public at a higher rate. It is hoped that a suitable Lecture Eoom may soon be added to the Institute, while some other hall can be used in the meantime. Debates will also be promoted occasionally, in connection with the Institute ,* and ladies who may choose to attend as listeners (or speakers) will find debates both amusing and entertaining, while their presence will be a stimulus. H. F. Christie, President, H. E, P. Adams, Treasurer. J. A. Wilkinson, Secretary. G, D. Hamebton 1 S, Taplin ( Membe: s of j, W. Bright j Committee. E. Houghton J Free Advertisement.]